Identity in Dialogue : Assessing and enhancing Catholic school identity. Research methodology and research results in Catholic schools in Victoria, Australia

ISBN-13: 9783643905505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 468 str.

Didier Pollefeyt; Jan Bouwens

Opis

Situated in increasingly pluralizing cultural contexts, Catholic schools face the challenge of recontextualizing their identity in a culturally plausible and theologically legitimate way. To this end, across Victoria, Australia, the Enhancing Catholic School Identity Project (ECSIP) has developed a suite of empirical instruments that provide an in-depth analysis of a school's current - as well as desired - identity in a statistically reliable way. The results are discussed in this book. After describing and interpreting the results, the empirical insights lead to well-informed recommendations aimed at the identity development of Catholic schools, with a normative preference for the Recontextualizing Dialogue School model as the way to enhance Catholic identity in a context of diversity. In this manner, ECSIP supports on-going processes of (self-) assessment that form the basis for continuing dynamics of (self-) improvement of the identity of Catholic educational institutions. (Series: Christian Religious Education and School Identity - Vol. 1)

O autorze

Drs. Jan Bouwens, born 1978, has studied philosophy in both Antwerp and Amsterdam, and theology in Leuven. Prof. Dr. Didier Pollefeyt, born 1965, is a full professor at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies and Vice President for Education KU Leuven.